Hello Andre, Thanks for your reply.
> On Apr 21, 2017, at 3:57 PM, Andre LaBranche <d...@apple.com> wrote: > >> >> On Apr 21, 2017, at 12:32 PM, Ian Baker <iba...@eem.ca >> <mailto:iba...@eem.ca>> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I have 4 questions. If any are better directed elsewhere, please let me >> know. >> >> Some background. We are a small consulting firm using Server.app v5.2 and >> its associated WebCal client. All of our users are running El Cap or better >> and also use Calendar.app. We also make use of delegation to provide other >> employees access to our calendars. >> >> 1) At the top of the WebCal interface there is a popup that permits full >> display of the calendars that we have delegated access to. We’ve found this >> a very useful feature and wonder if there is some way to do the same using >> the Mac Calendar.app client? If not, is there any other way to provide full >> calendar display of delegated calendars > > In Calendar.app, the 'Window' menu should contain entries for all of the > accounts for which the current user has delegate access. Choosing one should > open that calendar in a separate window. To make delegate calendars appear > in-line with the user's calendars, select the CalDAV account in Calendar > preferences, and use the checkboxes in the 'delegation' tab. Wow - you learn something new every day - it never occurred to me to look there. >> 2) I have one user (the boss of course ;-)) who has delegated read access to >> all employees. When trying to use the aforementioned popup menu in the >> WebCal interface to display his calendar we get the “Getting events from >> server…” panel, but it never completes. No problem accessing other user’s >> calendars. How would one debug, and hopefully fix, this issue? His calendar >> is very busy! Creating an event and inviting the boss does present his >> busy/free times without issue. > > Hard to say what might be wrong. It could be stuck, or it could just be > taking a long time. The CalendarServer logs should be somewhat useful here; > they are in /Library/Server/Calendar & Contacts/Logs - specifically > access.log and error.log. You could also use the web developer console in the > browser to look for javascript errors (the webcal client is implemented in > javascript). OK. I’ll have a look there. Must be something specific to the WebCal client as using the Windows trick from above loads the boss’s calendar in less that 30 secs. >> 3) We recently hired some PC user types who are pushing us to move to >> Outlook and Exchange for the simple reason that they want to be able to add >> attachments to meeting invitations, e.g. meeting agenda. Apparently >> Outlook/Exchange can do this. Is this possible using Mac’s Calendar.app >> and/or the WebCal client? > > Attachments are supported in Calendar.app. Select an event, click > "Attachments", then "Add attachment". Attachments are not supported in the > web client. Sorry André - color me thick, but I don’t see where to click “Attachments”. Here is what I see when I open an event: Am I looking in the wrong spot? >> 4) We’ve had some reports of inbound meeting invitations from Exchange >> servers having wrong times (e.g. one hour off). How can we determine what >> the cause of this time shift might be? I’m assuming that the time zone of >> the calendar server is taken directly from the OS, and that this is not the >> source of the occasional error. > > Ah, timezones. There are at least a few common causes of this problem. Often > times, comparing the event received from Exchange with one generated by > Calendar is all that's needed to reveal the salient difference. To do this, > you can drag an event from Calendar to the desktop to reveal the ics file, > then open that file in a text editor. The iCalendar body might look something > like shown below. I've highlighted in red portions that are especially > relevant: the VTIMEZONE component, which describes the client's understanding > of time zones with respect to things like daylight savings time, and also the > DTSTART and DTEND properties in the VEVENT component, which defines the > starting and ending time stamp for the event *including time zone > specification*. > > BEGIN:VCALENDAR > VERSION:2.0 > PRODID:-//Apple Inc.//Mac OS X 10.12.5//EN > CALSCALE:GREGORIAN > BEGIN:VTIMEZONE > TZID:America/Los_Angeles > BEGIN:DAYLIGHT > TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 > RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU > DTSTART:20070311T020000 > TZNAME:PDT > TZOFFSETTO:-0700 > END:DAYLIGHT > BEGIN:STANDARD > TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 > RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU > DTSTART:20071104T020000 > TZNAME:PST > TZOFFSETTO:-0800 > END:STANDARD > END:VTIMEZONE > BEGIN:VEVENT > CREATED:20170421T193938Z > UID:37F10F60-55D5-4631-8810-F86DA2DFA9DB > DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170421T114500 > TRANSP:OPAQUE > X-APPLE-TRAVEL-ADVISORY-BEHAVIOR:AUTOMATIC > SUMMARY:New Event > DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170421T110000 > DTSTAMP:20170421T193938Z > SEQUENCE:0 > BEGIN:VALARM > X-WR-ALARMUID:50C22A83-4512-4888-9194-7E3E600206AF > UID:50C22A83-4512-4888-9194-7E3E600206AF > TRIGGER:-PT5M > X-APPLE-DEFAULT-ALARM:TRUE > ATTACH;VALUE=URI:Basso > ACTION:AUDIO > END:VALARM > END:VEVENT > END:VCALENDAR Thanks for the tip here too. I’ll check this out when we next get a time-shifted invitation. Help is very much appreciated! Ian
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